Want to look extra fabulous for this new year?

How about doing what our ancestors did

and slathering your face and hair with everything from ostrich eggs to pee to crocodile dung?

Or fixing overplugged eyebrows by gluing on mouse pelts?

I'm Patty Steele.

Suffering for Beauty.

Next on the backstory.

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We're back with the backstory. Okay, who doesn't want to look good? Well, you've heard that

ridiculous line, it's better to look good than to feel good. You laugh until you realize how many

people are willing to suffer to look better. We do it now with Botox, implants, plastic surgery,

but that need to look good has been going on for thousands of years. And amazingly,

some of what they used thousands of years ago is still effective today.

Now, first, we'll go back more than 10,000 years to ancient Egypt.

Men and women were anxious to hang on to youth by protecting their skin.

They used creams, oils, and makeup made with herbs, spices, flowers, and other less savory ingredients to look better.

There was a primitive sunscreen made with ostrich eggs, and for noble women, there was nothing

like a milk bath, although Cleopatra later on apparently preferred to lounge in a bath of sour

milk.

And who doesn't want a facial?

Allo and spices were mixed with honey and milk for an anti-wrinkle and anti-inflammatory

mask.

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